Title: LE TG Closing Report for Session #60
Document Number: P802.16h-09/0007
Date Submitted: March 12, 2009
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Chair of LE TG: Mariana Goldhamer
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Session #60, 9-12 March 2009
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LE Task Group activity
– WG Review - Comment resolution
• Data-base 802.16-09/0012r1
• 173 comments
– All the comments are resolved
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140 - Agree
23 - Principle (Accepted-Modified)
9 – Disagree
1 – Un-resolvable
Summary of the comment resolutions
• Frequency keying signaling (preamble based)
was deleted and the text aligned with the
deletion
– The rest of the document has no dependency on
this mechanism
• Document improved for consistency
– No major changes done
Sponsor Ballot status
• Approval conditions were met
– 94 approve
– 12 disapprove voters
• Approve ratio: 88%
– 5 emails with commitments to change Disapprove votes
• This will bring the approval ratio above 90%
– 4 abstain
Outstanding disapprove comments
• First Ballot
– BALLOT OPENED: 6-Aug-2008
BALLOT CLOSED: 5-Sep-2008
– Resulting data-base:
• IEEE 80216-08/047r3.zip
• 24 outstanding comments
• First Recirc.
– BALLOT OPENED: 4-Dec-2008
BALLOT CLOSED: 25-Dec-2008
– Resulting data-base:
• IEEE 80216-08/065r3.zip
• 4 outstanding comments
Industry needs 802.16h a.s.a.p.
• European regulations for 5 GHz in force from
April 1, 2009 (EN 301 893 V1.4) require a Medium
access protocol
– “A medium access protocol is a mechanism designed to
facilitate spectrum sharing with other devices in the
wireless network.”
• 5 GHz is used for Fixed applications
• High-speed backhauling of 802.11 or 802.16 networks
• LE TG desire to have two re-circulations by the May
meeting
– To speed-up finalization of the standard
Plan for going forward
• D9 and 2nd Recirc start: March 22
– Recirc. End: April 5
• Comment resolution
– Resolve the comments by correspondence
– Comment Resolution Committee
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Mariana Goldhamer
Xuyong Wu
Harry Bims
John Sydor
Shulan Feng
• D10 and 3d recirc start: April 15
• 3d recirc end: April 30
Motion 1
• “To authorize the LE TG Editor to create the
WG draft IEEE P802.16h/D9 based on IEEE
P802.16h/D8a and the comment resolutions
recorded in the data-base IEEE 802.1609/0012r1, and to initiate a Sponsor Ballot
recirculation using the comment resolutions
recorded in IEEE 802.16-08/065r5 and IEEE
802.16-09/0012r1”
Motion 2
• To authorize the LE TG Comment Resolution
Committee (Mariana Goldhamer, Xuyong Wu,
Harry Bims, John Sydor, Shulan Feng) to
resolve the comments in SB Recirculation by
correspondence, to authorize the LE TG Editor
to create the next SB Draft based on the
comment resolutions, and to initiate an
additional recirculation of the 802.16h Sponsor
Ballot.
Motion 3
• To authorize the WG Chair to request
Conditional Approval from the IEEE 802
Executive Committee to forward the IEEE
P802.16h Draft to RevCom.